The Knights are In On the Scriptural Joke (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday, Steve at BeThere2Day, Sandee at Comedy Plus, and Catsynth.    

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Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and has become a moveable feast of word or picture or music prompts to encourage us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy.    

The prompts will be posted by Elephant's Child this month and are provided by  Sean Jeating.   

This week's prompts are first, followed by the words that should have been posted last week,

• funeral,
• moon, 
• splendiferously, 
• sun, 
• coffin,

and/or

 

• afraid, 
• biased, 
• crows, 
• nutrition, 
• worms

  

 

And then this week's words:

 

• art, 
• awe, 
• love, 
• moonlit, 
• sleeping

 

and/or 

 

• beauty,
• breathless, 
• dreamscape,  
• face, 
• oxygen

 

 

A plethora of riches this week.

Charlotte (MotherOwl)  has given us Pebble Grey as the colour of the month.  If you can also incorporate it into your stories she (and I) will be grateful.

First set of words:

Looking at the SPLEDIFEROUSLY carved COFFIN, she had to wonder what the FUNERAL had been like.  She couldn't imagine any reason for someone to plan such a send-off for themselves, especially considering the "guest of honor" is not even there to enjoy it, being NUTRITION for WORMS by the time it rolls around.

Then again, she didn't like ostentation in her own life and admitted she was a bit BIASED that way.

She did admire the way the solar system was depicted as it was rather astonishing.  He'd considered himself the SUN and his wife the MOON, his children the planets arrayed around them, and any astronomer in right mind would have gotten a good laugh out of it, artistic or not.

There were CROWS aplenty in one scene, carrying him to the underworld.  She'd always liked the large, black birds of every species, and spent a few minutes wondering how they'd come to be given such a job in the ancient culture's beliefs.

The Pebble Grey of the stone crypt lent an eerie feeling.  It didn't exactly make you AFRAID, but rather uncomfortable, she thought, and was glad when her tour group moved on.

Second set of words:

When she was a little girl, she'd been enamored with BEAUTY queens and had become one herself.  She loved ART as well, and had many pieces of her own making in many media to show for it.

One especially wonderful piece she'd called "DREAMSCAPE," and it was one.  She always told me she was trying to depict, in art, what it felt like to be in LOVE.

She was also a dancer, and had a closet full of costumes to prove it.

It made me angry to look at her NOW.  MOONLIT, her FACE was Pebble Gray as she lay SLEEPING under the OXYGEN mask, often BREATHLESS.

Cigarettes make me ill to think about.

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Today is:

Canning Day -- get that harvest preserved!  on the birth anniversary of Nicholas Appert, the French chemist who devised modern canning

Children's Day -- Australia

Chulalongokorn Day -- Thailand (Rama V Day)

Commemoration of the Paris Peace Agreements of 1991 -- Cambodia

Day of the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle -- Republic of Macedonia

Dia Nacional de la Aviacion -- Mexico (National Aviation Day)

Festival of Forgotten Gods -- so we don't offend anybody, i guess?

Festival of Selket and Ceremony of Thoth -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Liberation Day -- Libya

Lung Health Day -- US (on the Wednesday of Respiratory Care Week; some sites to explore about lung health are here and here)    

National Boston Cream Pie Day

National Day / Republic Day -- Hungary

National Mole Day -- US Chemists; from 6:02AM to 6:02PM, in honor of Avogadro's Number, which is 6.02 x 10²³, a basic measuring unit in chemistry; 2024 theme, "EncantMOLE"     

Shemini Azteret -- Judaism (Jewish completion of the annual cycle of reading of the Torah; begins at sunset, through sunset tomorrow)

St. John of Capistrano's Day (Patron of judges, jurists, military chaplains)

     Swallows Depart San Juan Capistrano Day -- after today, in spite of what you think, the natives will tell you that bird is not a swallow

TV Talk Show Host Day -- the way some of them behave, do they deserve a day? Well, I guess everyone is good for something, even if only for being a bad example!  This one is for the birth anniversary of Johnny Carson, who certainly deserves recognition

Ueno Tenjin Matsuri -- Mie, Japan (festival and parade of oni gyoretsu -- demons or ogres -- dating back to the 16th century and said to halt plague, dispel illness, and ward off bad luck; through the 25th)

Birthdays Today:

Keith Van Horn, 1975

Al Leiter, 1965

Dug Flutie, 1962

Randy Pausch, 1960

Nancy Grace, 1959

"Weird" Al Yankovic, 1959

Martin Luther King III, 1957

Dwight Yoakam, 1956

Ang Lee, 1954

Michael Crichton, 1942

Pele' 1940

Chi-Chi Rodriguez, 1934

Johnny Carson, 1925

Frank Rizzo, 1920

Gertrude Ederle, 1906

Gummo Marx, 1893

Adlai Stevenson, 1835

Nicholas Appert, 1752

Debuting/Premiering Today:

The iPod, 2001

"Shadowlands"(Play), 1989

"Pippin"(Musical), 1972

"Barefoot in the Park"(Play), 1963

Dumbo(Disney animated film), 1941

"The Fred Allen Show"(Radio), 1932

"The Squaw Man"(Play), 1914

"In Old Kentucky"(Play), 1893 (ran for 27 seasons)

"Prince Igor"(Opera), 1890

Today in History:

According to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher and based on the Bible, Creation begins, BC4004

Second Battle of Philippi, Brutus defeated by Octavian and Marc Antony, Brutus commits suicide, BC42

The Jews of Barbados are forbidden from engaging in retail trade, 1668

A revolt is held in Haarlem after a public ban on smoking, 1690

First Jewish prayer books printed in the US, 1760

The Continental Congress approves a resolution barring blacks from the army, 1775

Failed coup against the Emperor Napoleon, 1812

The first plastic surgery is performed, in England, 1814

72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate, 1867

The New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office, 1876

The First National Horseshoe Throwing Championship is held in Kellerton, Iowa, 1915

The first North American transcontinental air service begins between New York City and Los Angeles, California, 1929

Husband and wife Dr. Carl Cori & Dr. Gerty Cori are awarded joint Nobel Prizes, 1947

An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time; only 100 were rescued, 1958

A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria, 1973

Emperor Akihito becomes the first Emperor of Japan to stand on Chinese soil, 1992

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement, 1998

Apple unveils the iPod, 2001

The US CDC announces that, if current trends in diet and exercise continue, by 2050 1 of 3 American adults will have diabetes, 2010

To bolster their relationship, China and India sign a new border defense agreement, 2013

The world's oldest intact shipwreck, an ancient Greek vessel 2,400 years old, is found at bottom of the Black Sea by archaeologists, 2018

The world's longest sea-crossing bridge, the Hong Kong Macau Zhuhai bridge, is opened, 2018

Colombia announces the capture of it's most wanted drug lord, Dairo Antonio Usuga 'Otoniel', 2021

Superfog combined with smoke from swamp fires cause blinding conditions on Interstate 55 just outside of New Orleans, Louisiana, leading to a 158 car pile up and several deaths, 2023